Big news! For me, at least.

It's almost time! Just one more month. One month that I thought I would be spending up here, in the great white North, but now I'M GOING HOME!!! I love my home. I love Georgia. I love not having to wear a jacket in April and May. And next week, I'll be able to enjoy these thing I love. Yes!

But about my trip. I am going to be in Cameroon from June to July, then I'll be back in Atlanta in August and back in Canada (and at school) in September. I've got my whole summer planned out. It's great!

Okay, so seriously, now. About my trip. I have more information about what I'll be doing, which is very exciting. I will be working in various places, traveling around and encouraging. I'll be spending two weeks in Lamnso (one in June and one in July) helping with literacy classes and scripture engagement. Everything in Lamnso will be in the Lamnso language, so I won't be able to do too much to actually help in the classes, but I'll be sharing why I think mother tongue scriptures are important and observing (which, for me would be really fun. I can sit and listen to other languages for hours, especially when I have a chance to actually figure out the language).

Sometime while I'm there I'll also be able to work at children's camps! And actually work, because they are mostly conducted in English. If you know me, you know this is my passion. (Okay, I've got a lot of passions, but working with kids is something I truly enjoy.) For three years I worked with Hispanic children in Georgia, and that was the best thing I could have ever done. I learned so much from them and I hope I taught them something. Mostly, I became really close to God because I realized I had to be in order to actually help others come to Him. And in doing so, I realized how much He actually moves through my life and how much He can use me. I saw how He loved me and provided for me, and I saw how He was going to use me. It was amazing. it still is amazing. And now I get a chance to use what I learned in Georgia over in Cameroon. DO YOU SEE THIS?! God was preparing me for this trip starting four years ago (Okay, not specifically this trip, maybe, but He was preparing me for the future and knew I would need experience in children's camps)! His plan is the greatest and the most powerful.

I'm not completely sure what else I'll be doing, and I wouldn't be surprised if my time is more, "Oh, hey, you're free this week. How about going to these people and sharing your vision/testimony/time/etc?" Of course, they could have a schedule for me and just haven't told me yet, but who knows? I've decided to trust God with this. He has provided for me in everything else, and He knows how to best use me in Cameroon. Have I mentioned that God is amazing? Because He is amazing me.

God is good, all the time. ALL THE TIME.

So much excitement in so few words!

This is going to be short, because I don't have a lot of details to share and I'm not really sure what is happening in the next week even as to where I am staying and whether or not I am going home or what, but!

I am officially an intern for Wycliffe Bible Translators and will be working in Cameroon from June through July!! Not as long as I'd originally thought, but that's okay! I still get to go home in August, and possibly for May. AND I GET TO WORK IN CAMEROON WITH CABTAL!!

And this is what God was planning all along. He is always in control. Amen.

Wow.

Dear goodness me. So much has happened. So much is yet to happen. God is moving me, but nobody is really sure where He's taking me!

For those who I haven't told yet, I was the only person to sign up for the trip by the deadline. However! Because of my passion and the way God seems to be moving and how He has given me funds (I have $2000 for this trip!), Wycliffe is trying to work out an internship for me. That's right. An INTERNSHIP!! That means not seven weeks in Cameroon, some of them being training and only actually working with people for four or so weeks. I'll be in Cameroon, most likely working directly with CABTAL and therefore the Bible translators, for the whole summer. May - July, possibly August. But I would like to see my family, so they are going to try to send me home by the first week of August.

Wow. I mean, really. Wow. If this works out, it will be so exciting. I was honestly wondering what I was going to do this summer. I thought God wanted me in Cameroon, because He so pulled me towards the trip and provided the funds for me, but then not the trip. As much as I really want to go home and see my whole family, plane tickets home are really expensive this late in the game. And I don't have a job waiting for me back home. In the last month I thought I was going to Cameroon, so I haven't been making plans to go home or what I'll do there. this is really odd for me, because I usually makes back-up plans and try to work everything out myself. I was really worried before Jessica called me to ask me about being an intern because I was afraid I wouldn't be doing anything this summer. I am a very cautious person and usually make lots of different plans, but I decided to trust God on this one. And I really thought it was working out, so I never started planning to go home, I just kept trying to push the trip and find more people. But it didn't work. And no one signed up. I had to keep reminding myself to keep giving it all to God. And then He gave me this. Amazing.

And just now, while my philosophy class was taking a break (and yes, now I'm writing this during the class, but I was so excited!), I was telling a classmate about the trip and how exciting it is. She reaches into her bag, I think she's going to get a pen to write down details so she can pray for me, but she pulls out an envelope and gives me money. Whoa! She told me she carries around money because this is how she feels God calling her. Every month she puts some money in an envelope to give to whomever God tells her to give it to, and we just talked for five minutes and she gives me this money. I feel so blessed.

God, help me remember you are in control. I trust You, and I know You will come through, so help me to quiet the tiny voice in my head which causes my heart to quicken and my mind to worry because it says maybe You won't come through and I'll have to fend for myself. You are always there and always prove that You are in control. Always. I have nothing to fear because I know You are there. Please take me and use me in Cameroon. Help me to grow and be a light for You. Amen

God is good, all the time. All the time, God is good.